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In A Deluge of Consequences, the first World Policy e-book, intrepid journalist Jacques Leslie takes us along on a mythic, spell-binding trip to the bucolic kingdom of Bhutan, where the planet's next environmental disaster is set to unfold.

In this private luncheon, acclaimed geopolitical analyst and WPI Senior Fellow Ian Bremmer will offer insights on the causes and consequences of a broken global order; the shifting balance between security and economics; new investment strategies and the power of resilience; and what the future may hold in a world without a clear leader.

World Policy Institute and Van Alen Institute will co-host an event aimed towards generating proposals to reuse vacant land in New Orleans. Greg Lindsay, Nadine Maleh, and Rachel Peric will lead the conversation on how to repurpose land by using examples from around the world. See the details here.

In an increasingly vulnerable and complex world where turbulence in the market, social unrest, and disruptions of the natural environment have become commonplace, there’s just no more room for poor policy decisions. Please join Nassim Taleb and Yaneer Bar-Yam for an intimate evening in which they share their thoughts on how to avoid the collapse of human civilization. Guests will be invited to engage in discussion with the speakers and will have the opportunity to network while enjoying a private cocktail reception.

In the wake of the UN Climate Summit, and concurrent with the second Arctic Circle Summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, Vice President Al Gore will preside over an intimate convening of environmental and private sector leaders. In this off-the-record discussion, Mr. Gore will address the role of the United States as it rises to meet the demands of environmental stewardship, and explores the successes of international alignment, private sector innovation, and widespread citizen action in reversing the current trajectory.

World Policy Institute, CultureStrike, and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop present a film screening of "Who is Dayani Cristal?" and political salon on migration, border security, and social justice.

Joseph A. Cari Jr. is Chair of the World Policy Institute, as well as Chairman and CEO of Integration Capital & Trade Global, an international merchant co-development bank. Cari has lectured on foreign policy and U.S. presidential politics at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, Villanova University in Philadelphia, and Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where he also serves as Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Leadership Studies.

Join World Policy Institute and The Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute for an exciting panel discussion on the future of emerging cities. The event will address questions like: what role can the informal sector play in building more inclusive and resilient cities?

Deep in the sun-blistered Sonora Desert beneath a cicada tree, Arizona border police discover a decomposing male body. Lifting a tattered t-shirt, they expose a tattoo that reads “Dayani Cristal.” Who is this person? What brought him here? How did he die? And who – or what – is Dayani Cristal?

Join World Policy's political salon with Souad Mekhenne, co-author of "The Eternal Nazi" for a conversation on the story of Dr. Aribert Heim - a wanted SS doctor for the Nazis who escaped an international manhunt and a German party resolute on finding him.

Clifford Chance cordially invites you to join Matthew Bishop, US Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief of The Economist and Susan McPherson, Founder, McPherson Strategies, for a book launch event to celebrate the publication of Alice Korngold's "A Better World, Inc.: How Companies Profit by Solving Global Problems...Where Governments Cannot."

John Lipsky's service at the International Monetary Fund coincided with the onset of the greatest economic and financial challenges faced by the rapidly globalizing world. In this private dinner discussion, Dr. Lipsky will offer his analysis of the shortcomings of the current system of international economic governance, and what needs to change in order to ensure the coordination needed to maintain an increasingly interconnected economy.

In this Salon, acclaimed former Los Angeles Times correspondent Jacques Leslie warns of the devastating and dramatic consequences if we lose the race against these Glacial Lake Outburst Floods. Jacques Leslie’s A Deluge of Consequences is the first World Policy Book and an extension of an article Leslie wrote for the World Policy Journal Summer 2013 issue. Leslie’s last book, Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment, won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award for its “elegant, beautiful prose.”

In our mega-urbanized, mega-digitized world, cities around the globe are deploying technology to address both the timeless challenges of government and the mounting problems posed by unprecedented urbanization. As technology giants, entrepreneurs, mayors, and an emerging vanguard of civic hackers are trying to shape this new frontier, urbanist Anthony Townsend considers the motivations, aspirations, and shortcomings of all who are building the future one click at a time.